Leonardo Blair
Senior Reporter
Leonardo Blair is an award-winning investigative reporter and feature writer whose career spanned secular media in the Caribbean and New York City prior to joining The Christian Post in 2013. His early work with CP focusing on crime and Christian society quickly attracted international attention when he exposed a campaign by Creflo Dollar Ministries in 2015 to raise money from supporters to purchase a $65 million luxury jet. He continues to report extensively on church crimes, spiritual abuse, mental health, the black church and major events impacting Christian culture.
He is a 2007 alumnus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was an inaugural member of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. He lives with his wife and two sons in New York City.
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Thousands of Christian voters are expected to unite in hundreds of churches across the country to declare their allegiance to Jesus in Holy Communion services Tuesday as the bitter and blistering 2016 presidential campaign season comes to an end.
ISIS Threatens to 'Slaughter' Apostate Muslims Who Vote in US Elections
Al Hayat Media Center, the news media arm for ISIS, has demanded in a seven-page document that American Muslims refrain from participating in the upcoming general elections and threatened those who plan to vote with "slaughter."
Pastor Saeed Abedini Says He Had Vision Donald Trump Would Be President While in Iranian Prison
Four years ago as he sat in solitary confinement in an Iranian prison guilty of evangelizing, Pastor Saeed Abedini, who was freed earlier this year, said God showed him a vision that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would become president.
Less Than Half of Practicing Christians Read Their Bible and the Rest of America Is Even Worse
Despite its enviable record as the most printed and sold book in the world over the last five decades, less than half of practicing Christians in the U.S. spend serious time engaging with their Bible, according to the American Bible Society, and the rest of the country is even worse.
Mel Gibson's 'Hacksaw Ridge' Is a Masterful and Tortured Collision of War and Faith (Movie Review)
Mel Gibson's latest directorial feat "Hacksaw Ridge" is a masterful depiction of an inspiring but violent collision between war and faith.
'How Do I Change My Vote?' Searches Skyrocket as Donald Trump Urges Early Clinton Voters to Switch
Calling a vote for Hillary Clinton a "big mistake," Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump urged Democrats who voted early for his rival to take it back and vote for him as searches for "how do I change my vote?" surged 600 percent in the last week, according to Google Trends.
Kirk Franklin Urges Christian Artists to Help Him Promote Racial Healing at Dove Awards
Popular gospel icon Kirk Franklin threw his clout behind the movement for racial justice at the recently held 47th annual GMA Dove Awards show in Nashville, Tennessee, when he urged Christian artists in an impassioned plea to help him promote racial healing.
Teaching Poor About God's Prosperity and Abundance 'Makes Sense,' Megachurch Pastor AR Bernard Says
Pastor A.R. Bernard, founder of New York City's largest evangelical congregation, the Christian Cultural Center, says teaching the poor about God's prosperity and abundance "makes a lot of sense."
Evangelist Luis Palau Ribs Gospel Singer Kirk Franklin and Younger Preachers
Renowned international evangelist Luis Palau served up jokes ribbing gospel singer Kirk Franklin for his high energy performances and the contemporary fashion choices of young preachers in a lighthearted moment during the closing ceremony of the Movement Day Global Cities Christian conference in New York City on Thursday.
Tim Keller Warns Christians About Being Divided by Politics: 'You're Christian First'
Timothy Keller, senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, warned Christians Thursday against allowing politics to divide the Church and said before anything else, "you're Christian first."
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